The 2024 edition of the Roland-Garros Grand Slam tournament begins this Monday, May 20 with the qualifications.
The 2024 edition of the Roland-Garros tournament promises to be more uncertain than ever. Between May 26 and June 9, the 128 participants in the men’s and women’s tables will try to win the Musketeers’ Cup and the Suzanne Lenglen Cup on the clay court of the Auteuil greenhouses. The qualifications begin this Monday, May 20.
Alcaraz, Djokovic and Nadal in the tough
For the first time in many years, no favorite really emerges in the men’s draw a few days before the start of the tournament. The defending champion and world number one Novak Djokovic is indeed having a difficult start to the season. For the second time in his career, he arrives in Paris without having won a single tournament since January. Worse, he didn’t reach the final of any of the tournaments he played, with early eliminations at Indian Wells and Rome. In the top five, uncertainty is also present for Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, both bothered by injuries for several weeks and uncertain for the French Open.
For what will undoubtedly be the last Roland-Garros of the career of Rafael Nadal, the master of the place, fourteen times winner of Porte d’Auteuil, has not yet officially confirmed his participation. The Mallorcan has indeed been returning to the courts for a few weeks but is struggling to regain his rhythm and his level of play.
Swiatek in the fight with Sabalenka?
The women’s circuit, on the contrary, has shown more continuity and regularity in recent weeks, with a stable top four and regularly in the last four of the tournaments. If Coco Gauff will have to resolve her service problems to return to the Roland-Garros final after that of 2022, Rybakina and Sabalenka seem able to win the tournament. But to do this it will be necessary to achieve the feat of beating the world number one Iga Swiatek three-time tournament winner and two-time defending champion. At only 22 years old, the Pole is on “Nadalesque” bases on clay, with 75 victories in 85 career matches played on the surface and already three Grand Slams and three WTA 1000s.
The wild cards
The tournament organization has revealed the wild cards for the main draw and for the qualifications. Richard Gasquet and Alizé Cornet, who both announced the end of their careers, will have the opportunity to say goodbye to the Parisian public. Among the women, the other guests in the main draw are Chloé Paquet (140th), Fiona Ferro (146th), Elsa Jacquemot (153rd), Jessika Ponchet (150th) and Kristina Mladenovic (221st). Nine French women will be able to try their luck in qualifying, from Monday May 20. They are Séléna Janicijevic (217th), Manon Léonard (284th), Margaux Rouvroy (286th), Alice Tubello (371st), Jenny Lim (499th), Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah (550th), Astrid Lew Yan Foon (601st) as well as the two young Sarah Iliev (643rd, 17 years old) and Daphnée Mpetshi Perricard (1233rd, 15 years old).
Among the men, in addition to Richard Gasquet, the wild cards for the main draw were distributed to Alexandre Müller (109th), Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (123rd), Harold Mayot (130th), Terence Atmane (137th) and Pierre-Hugues Herbert (140th). Once discussed, the possibility of giving a wild card to Dominic Thiem, double finalist of the tournament and who announced his retirement at the end of the season, was not retained. The Austrian will therefore have to go through qualifying, unless the packages allow him to enter the main draw directly.
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The overloaded calendar does not change the dates of Roland-Garros which will take place from May 20, 2024 with the start of qualifying to Sunday June 9, 2024, the day of the men’s final.
If the ticketing system remains as in previous years, tickets will now be 100% dematerialized. There will be three phases. The first tickets will be sold to club presidents and then to licensees of the French Tennis Federation, before the ticket office opens to the general public on Wednesday March 13 at 10 a.m. You need to pay at least €39 for access to the side courts during the main tournament, and €50 minimum to have a place in the stands of the Philippe Chatrier court. Resales of places are also planned in the run-up to the tournament and during the fortnight.
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The overall allocation for Roland-Garros 2024 was revealed on April 25, 2024. In 2024 the overall allocation is up 7.8% compared to last year, and amounts to 53.478 million euros according to the press release. of Roland Garros.
At Roland Garros, the official program for each day, available on the official website, can sometimes be turned upside down. Indeed, if the start time of the day is quite clear, it is very difficult to predict the exact end time of the matches. The main constraints for the organizers: the weather and the time of sunset. In fact, only the Philippe-Chatrier court has a retractable roof and can host night matches. The other courts do not have lighting.
Roland Garros broadcasters in 2024, France TV and Amazon Prime (subscribe to Amazon Prime Video) have renewed their contract until 2027. France Télévisions will broadcast all of the day’s matches whileAmazon Prime will broadcast the 11 night sessions from the first Sunday to the last Wednesday of the tournament. Unlike last year, Amazon Prime will no longer have the exclusivity of matches on Simonne Matthieu. The two media outlets reached an agreement. They will co-broadcast the semi-finals of the women’s and men’s singles draws, the women’s and men’s doubles and the mixed doubles final.
Here is the winners of the French Open at Roland-Garros since the Open era
- 1968: Ken Rosewall
- 1969: Rod Laver
- 1970: Jan Kodes
- 1971: Jan Kodes
- 1972: Andres Gimeno
- 1973: Ilies Nastase
- 1974: Bjorn Borg
- 1975: Bjorn Borg
- 1976: Adriano Panatta
- 1977: Guillermo Villas
- 1978: Bjorn Borg
- 1979: Bjorn Borg
- 1980: Bjorn Borg
- 1981: Bjorn Borg
- 1982: Mats Wilander
- 1983: Yannick Noah
- 1984: Ivan Lendl
- 1985: Mats Wilander
- 1986: Ivan Lendl
- 1987: Ivan Lendl
- 1988: Mats Wilander
- 1989: Michael Chang
- 1990: Andres Gomez
- 1991: Jim Courier
- 1992: Jim Courier
- 1993: Sergi Bruguera
- 1994: Sergi Bruguera
- 1995: Thomas Muster
- 1996: Yevgeny Kafelnikov
- 1997: Gustavo Kuerten
- 1998: Carlos Moya
- 1999: Andre Agassi
- 2000: Gustavo Kuerten
- 2001: Gustavo Kuerten
- 2002: Albert Costa
- 2003: Juan Carlos Ferrero
- 2004: Gaston Gaudio
- 2005: Rafael Nadal
- 2006: Rafael Nadal
- 2007: Rafael Nadal
- 2008: Rafael Nadal
- 2009: Roger Federer
- 2010: Rafael Nadal
- 2011: Rafael Nadal
- 2012: Rafael Nadal
- 2013: Rafael Nadal
- 2014: Rafael Nadal
- 2015: Stan Wawrinka
- 2016: Novak Djokovic
- 2017: Rafael Nadal
- 2018: Rafael Nadal
- 2019: Rafael Nadal
- 2020: Rafael Nadal
- 2021: Novak Djokovic
- 2022: Rafael Nadal
- 2023: Novak Djokovic
- 1968: Nancy Richey
- 1969: Margaret Smith Court
- 1970: Margaret Smith Court
- 1971: Evonne Goolagong
- 1972: Billie Jean King
- 1973: Margaret Smith Court
- 1974: Chris Evert
- 1975: Chris Evert
- 1976: Sue Barker
- 1977: Mima Jausovec
- 1978: Virginia Ruzici
- 1979: Chris Evert
- 1980: Chris Evert
- 1981: Hana Mandlikova
- 1982: Martina Navratilova
- 1983: Chris Evert
- 1984: Martina Navratilova
- 1985: Chris Evert
- 1986: Chris Evert
- 1987: Steffi Graf
- 1988: Steffi Graf
- 1989: Arantxa Sanchez
- 1990: Monica Seles
- 1991: Monica Seles
- 1992: Monica Seles
- 1993: Steffi Graf
- 1994: Arantxa Sanchez
- 1995: Steffi Graf
- 1996: Steffi Graf
- 1997: Iva Majoli
- 1998: Arantxa Sanchez
- 1999: Steffi Graf
- 2000: Mary Pierce
- 2001: Jennifer Capriati
- 2002: Serena Williams
- 2003: Justine Henin
- 2004: Anastasia Myskina
- 2005: Justine Henin
- 2006: Justine Henin
- 2007: Justine Henin
- 2008: Ana Ivanovic
- 2009: Svetlana Kuznetsova
- 2010: Francesca Shiavone
- 2011: Li Na
- 2012: Maria Sharapova
- 2013: Serena Williams
- 2014: Maria Sharapova
- 2015: Serena Williams
- 2016: Garbine Muguruza
- 2017: Jelena Ostapenko
- 2018: Simona Halep
- 2019: Ashleigh Barty
- 2020: Iga Swiatek
- 2021: Barbora Krejcikova
- 2022: Iga Swiatek
- 2023: Iga Swiatek